The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1922, Page 22

Of al) news despatches cred! Gad siso the local news published bereim ESTABLISHED BY (Dudlimed Dally Except sor | Company, Nos. 5 RALPH PULIT: J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer EPH PULITAER Jr etary P MEMINEN OF THE assovts - Tae Associated Trae ie exciuaitels eniuea to the ure for republteatton 4 to {t or vor oxmerwise crewitea in tows pape ELLISBURG EXPLAINS I1. FTER last week's flurry at Albany centring wound the Hon, H. Edmund Machold of Ellisburg, Jefferson County, N. Y., it is to be hoped | that the Legislature wil! get its feet back on the ground and forget the Machold threats to put an end to the Lockwood investigation It is perhaps only natural that H. Edmund fails | to grasp the need for housing help in this city. | fllisburg, The World Almanac informs us, had a wpulation of 292 in 1900 and 275 in 1920, a loss of seventeen. In these two decades 3,437,202 to 5,620,048 ew York has grown fram Maybe the | v committee is not deeded | fn Ellishurg. 1 most certainly is needed in New York. H. Edmund towed poor strategy in’ springing his threat too soos. If he had waited until a day or $ before the Lockwood committee wis to be | Strangled he might have been succe stul, But a week-end has intervened. Many of New | York’s legislators came home for the k-end. They had a chance to learn whether the men and women of their districts look at housing from the Ellisburg angle. If any Senator or Representative is in doubt as | to what his constituents think on the question of continuing the Lockwood committee, he is invited to inform The Evening World. We will be glad to advertise his doubts so his constituents may have opportunity of telling him. wee! EASE THE CROWDING, ANYHOW. | OMMISSIONER COPELAND is reassuring in in his latest report on influenza. He does not think it will prove necessary to “Stagger” the sub- way load by changing the opening and closing hours of stores, offices and theatres New York may feel thankful that the influenza is milder now and that this expedient is unnecessary as an influenza epidemic safeguard But subway overloading is dironic. Transit en- gineers are agreed that staggered hours would be an enormous relief to overcrowding in rush hours. There is no prospect of new subway lines to lighten the pressure in the next five years. For a limited time the situation will get worse and worse. It seems inevitable thal staggered hours will have to come within a year or two. Then, if we have an epidemic, how will it be possible to further decrease the crowding? New York needs the common sense to overcome fn part our present intolerable crowding by aban- doning traditional working hours. New York also needs the common sense to force forward a transit building programme that will strike at the root of the congestion by expanding the sub- way construction programme. TO COMPLETE THE TOWN HALL. HE League for Political Edugation has advanced a novel idea to raise money for the com- pletion of the Town Hall. It is proposed to endow chairs either as gifts or memorials. A simple name-plate will perpetuate the public spirit of the donor. This seems to be quite in accord with the spirit of the Town Hall idea. The Town Hall is an institution New York has fong needed. When it has reached its full usefi! ness it will become a sort of super-public for) In its first year, which closed recently, it ma’ a | good start. Many memorable gatherings hie is | sembled. Some of the meetings have been - | sirable, the managers admit. The sooner th fown | Hall is completed and placed on a self-supporting basis with an adequate endowment, the sooner New York will get the full benefit # it. Such an institution ought not to be driven by Necessity to commercialize its auditorhum. The ‘Town Hall name ought to be an absolute guarantee of the public-spiritedness of any gathering Why would it not be most appropriate for polili- al organizations to honor their leaders by endowing whole rows of chairs? Why not a Wilson row, a Roosevelt row? ‘The League for Political Education ha fdea. The Town Hall may yet beoome a Hall of Fame. ' a good informal IS CONGRESS FOOLING THEM ? URELY the advocates of a soldier bonus realize that Congress is not planning 4o enact a bonus bill because it believes in the printipleof a bonus. If a bonus bill passes, as it probably will, the epproaching election will be the reason, The vel- | érans will know that. Politicians, Republican and Democratic, are hoping to buy votes ai the expense of the taxpayers. But in the light of experience in New York State, what are the bonus advocates going to think of the Present policy in Washington? The latest shift is | eway from a sales tayind toward reliance on Brit- | ACHES AND PAINS ish debt repayment as a means of financing the bonus. ‘ Secretary Mellon does not approve such a course He has given plenty of reasons why this would be both unwise and impractical. 5 Another question suggests itself: Is such a pro- posal legal? When the Liberty bond issues were sold it was with the express understanding that repayment by the foreign borrowers would be applied to retire- ment of the Liberty bond Suppose Congress pass? erans are unlikely to get much money from. this source in the next few years. But if the money should come in, what is to prevent any ‘holder of Liberty bonds from getting an injunction forbidding the Treasury to pay any of the money as bonuses on the ground that it is already pledged for another purpose? It is not inconceivable that the courts might declare the whole bonus act unconstitutional on this ground. New York State courts upset a bonus bill. Of course, this would be highly satisfactory to Congress. Without regard to party, those now in office would have bought the soldier vote once. If they can pass an unconstitutional bonus act, they will be in position to buy the vote again. a bili, The vet HOW WOULD IT RING? HE histori¢ Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments is over. | The treaties that have come out of that con- | All men may read | tor themselves and measure the substantial prom- | ises of lightened armament burdens, restricted use of submarines, co-operation in dealing with Pacitic problems, the beginnings, at least, of fairer treat- ment for China. | In twelve weeks of discussion, concession an compromise, always under the necessity of unani- mous agreement, the conference has performed ali it found itself capable of performing. done. The treaties are signed. Signed by the representatives of the United State in the conference—but not yet ratified by the United States Senate. Approved by the President of the United States —but not yet approved by the Senate which sharzs with the President the treaty-amaking power. The record of the past three years unhappily justifies insistence upon this point. Treaties signed by representatives of the United States are by no means necessarily treaties to which the United States definitely becomes a party. The foreign policy of a President of the United States is not always the foreign policy of two-thirds of the United States Senate. That is why many Americans are bound to be peculiarly, even sensitively, conscious at the present moment of the eyes of other peoples who are wail- ing to see how the United States Senate will receive these Arms Conference treaties. The purposes of the Arms Conference genuinely stood for aims of the American people. It is hard to believe that treaties which even partially embody those aims can be turned down by a legislative body supposedly representative. Yet it is no secret that at this juncture the Senate again finds itself in a by no means reassuringly ratifying mood. In his closing address to the conference yester- day President Harding expressed the belief that “like conferences in the future, under appropriate conditions and with aims both well conceived and definite, may illumine the highways and byways of human activity.” How would :this ring in the ears of an ironical world if the United States Senate should again be- fuddle American foreign policy? ference are open documents. Its work is A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. A Bowery barber's college advertises a shave for 5 cents Seems to suggest vivisection! . Winslow Homer's “Bight Bells” was sold the other day for $50,000. When Winslow and his frail old father lived together in a shack on the rocks at Scar- boro, near Portland, in Maine, the artist doing the housekeeping, he used to say that if any one should offer him $300 for a picture he would faint away No danger from the $50,000, He's dead! . What's happened to Yap" . \ I's healthier to struggle than to succeed | . | Uncle Sam's budget makers say they have saved us $1.25 per on next year’s bills. Hoor: TARK TANKUS, THE TIGER OF THE TIDY, Reing an Up-to-Date Pirate Tale of Gur Own Manufacture, CHAPTER 1, Phe stout ship William H. Anderson ts see) o4\\- ing the wide wet sea, Suddenly the lookout {yoy his perch on the jibboom is heard to cry: “Sail ho!” “Where away?’ thunders Capt. Tarpaulin from jis throne on the 25-cent deck. “Three pints off on the starboard bow the eagle-eyed watcher. (To Be Continued.) returned | Hearing from THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1922. a a he nitrate wren er nla ENS pee the Country Mage et tt Copyriatet, 1082, (Sew York Brening, Wer By Press Publisning Co From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one that giv There is fine mental exercise 4 say much in few words. Smilet To the Editor of The Evening World In your newspaper [ noticed a news item in which you quoted Mayor Hy lan as advising the city to smik I think this is excellent that it would he of great benefit: to business if everybody remembers “Na- tional Smile Week."’ We have just passed through a period of business depression and I notice thatsMr. Charles Schwab, Pres- ident of the Bethlet teel Corpora- tion, in a recent speech, said that to smile at this time w benefit in spreading the doctrine of a cheerful spirit and a smile, I am sure that every one is convinced that the United States is in the best position to go after the trade which will soon be opening up to the Nation. If we all smile during this coming advice and week it will help to spread the spirit| of optimism which is necessary to re- vive us from the great business de- pression which we have passed through Mayor Hylan has given a very ap- propriate message at the time of his departure for the South R. DEININ . Feb. 4, 192 R. Sea Cliff, L. I “A State of Mind ‘To the Editor of The Evening \Worid Somo years ago a wise man re- miarked that “America is q state of min In other words, this gen- tleman has realized that the level of thought determines the status of a nation Acceptin. this definition of Amer- ica as “a state of mind,’ may Task permission to express through your paper unequivocal opposition to Am: ca partic Jon In th: enoa Con erence” There {s nothing exclusive in Amer-| canism any more than there is in Christianity, but how many lve a truly Christly life, and by the same test, how many are true Americans? America stands to-day at the v ry height of power and hopefuiness in her relation to the rest of the world. But that “power and ho Jiness” are not the result of her material pros- rity. They are the result of “her ate of mind,” the phenomena of her idealism, her moral zeal, und her ad- herence to her basic principle—sep- aratencss eat duiconiior oe ma terial prosperity trees will | vanish as a dream If she for a mo- ment entangles herself in European affairs. ro pe’s oles in A hav- Ing courage, vision and true friend: | ship enough to withstand the spe- clous arcuments of expediency and stand fo! identity Ormer than ever before America's contribution to the world id be of great} the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? ind a lot of satisfaction in trying te Take time to be brief. i |{s spiritual leadership, and as she! |conseerates herself to this sublime) task she has more and more of this spiritual nourishment to pour the outstretched hands of starving Furope, for what thinker {magines for a minute that Europe's material con- dition is anything but the phenom- enon of her spiritual nunger? She | into | calling for bread; she must not re- ‘ceive the stone of commercialism. VIDA MILHOLLAND. New York, Feb, 2, 1922. 1 Two Kinds of Control, !To the Editor of The Evening World ‘There has been so much said in your Forum both for and against the birth control movement I feel I must add my mite. We all know that birth control is practised everywhere among intelligent people, so why deny it to those often physically and mentally unfit to be parents? As long as such a law does exist why not reach below and get at the cause? Teach sex control and birth | control will take care of itself. Is that |not one of the benefits derived from \the physical training so widely prac- |tised in our schools, as {t certainly |turns attention from matters of sex to those of sport, and a body tired from sport 1s certainly inclined to rest. All hail to Mrs. Sanger and the birth control movement. Not even the Church, ‘80 powerfully opposed to it, could oppose sex control as a matter of health and efficiency. No great movement has ever started yet without its martyrs. N. B. JOHNSTON Sloatsburg, N. Y., Feb, 4, 1922 Not Bar. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World May a Jew become President of the United States? If not, why? New York City LOUTS SHATZ. Enforcement, | To the Editor of The Evening World | phe arrest of some former revonue officials for liquor violations, together with the prominence of the accuse, will doubtless cause many to assume that the enforcement of Prohibition is a failure. It rather proves the con- trary. It shows that the Revenue De- partment is functioning foreibly when jt accuses men prominent in public Hite and with powerful political con- nections, \ In spite of the possible pressure that muy have been put upon the present officials to protect those accused, the slleged crimes have Nn brought to light. Bootleggers will at last wake up lto the fact that this law is going to be administered in a conscientious, cour- ageous and impartial manner. ARTHUR DOUGLAS. Broadway, Feb. 8, 1922, GARR PPP PPP PPP ADAP ARPA PARP DDD DDD ILS | ® By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE MAN BEHIND YOU, It is foolish to told out your hands in order to block the path of the man behind you. If he is worthchis salt he is going to get where you are to-day, He wants your job, ov one just as good; and contrivs: as you will, you will not keep | im out of it provided he has the right stuff in him, If he hasn't, some man with the right stuff will soon step into his place and then you will be confronted with the same old problem There is a man behind every person who starts on the upward yoad, and many of these men behind are going to be men ahead before long. If you try to block their road they will slip into your place sooner oy later, and there will be no place for you to go but back toward the rear. Denying a man an opportunity to learn the duties of your job will not keep hin out of that opportunity forever. The old time carpenter or plumber who used to work in a corner so that apprentices could not “steal his trade” never dampened the ardor of any intelligent apprentices. They not only stole the trade, but they very frequently took the pay- ing practice of it away from the men who had sought to hide it from them. There is just one way to deal with the man behind that is safe for you and fair to him. That is to keep moving up so that he may step into your place when you leave it. If you are as talented as you probably believe you are you will some day come to a place which he cannot gain. Then you need not worry about him any more. But as long as he is moving up you will have to move up too, or you will begin to move down. There is room on one level for one man only. You must figure that the man behind is just as ambitious as you are. If he also is just as intelligent and just as industrious you may try as hard as you can to keep him from slipping into your position, but all without avail. Every man desires to go forward. It is fortunate for the really ambitious that so few of them have the energy to keep at it. But it will always happen, in the long procession of which you are a part, that sooner or later some man will be behind you who is ready to set a faster pace than you are setting. There is only one thing to do in a case like that, and that is to quicken your own pace and let him drop into the place you have vacated, By and by, as you get toward the top of the hill, you will know whether he is to pass you or not. If he can he will, and you will have to be content. But courage and industry and tenacity are rare qualities. Cultivate them, and the chances are streng that you will some day reaci a place where your competitors cannot follow. UNCOMMON SENSE * From the Wise | ewer nme —Becher Where people are tied for life, ‘ns for their mutual interest not to grow weary of one another. Lady Montagu. The prudent man may direct a state, but tt is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. —Bulwer Lytt The real man is one who al) War ws @ game which, were their subjects wise, Kings should play at.—-Cowper. not We hear the rains fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.—Auerbach All are not merry that dance lightly.—George Herbert. . finds excuses for others, but never Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. E. St. Amant. Coprrieht, 1983, (x; Erening Worla) ty Pies Pulse cot No. V.—TYPICAL CASES. Ww H Parker of Springfield, ‘Tenn, 2 Sabbath-keeper, was ar- rested and tried on the charge of maintaining a nisance by working Jon Sunday, He was convicted and |fined $25 and costs. Ils case was appealed to the Supreme Court of the State, and, notwithstanding the fact that the statute against Sunday labor in Tennessee docs notgmake such labor an indictable offense, but subjects the offender to a fine of only $3, recoverable before a, justice of the peace, it was decidéd that “a succession of such acts becomes & nuisance, and is indictable.” The decision of the lower court was af- firmed, the total fine and costs now . Mr jrequired to serve out in fail, at 26 cents per day. Taken from his » who at the time was n a delicate condition, and from a child who was under the doctor's vare, he was committed to jai where he contracted malarial fever Previous to this time lic had been in reasonably good health. On account of his sickness he was released, after | being in jail fifty-nine days, upon giving bonds to return when he got | well. In two months le returned ‘and worked out the balance of his ‘sentence, amounting | all to 289 days, or over nine montlis. He diet not long afterward John A. Meeks of Star of the West, Arkansas, fourteen years of age, son of Jesse I.. Meeks, was in- dicted for Sabbath-breaking, the of. fense charged being that of shoot ng squirrels on Sunday The place where the squirrels were shot was in & mountainous district entirel away from any public road or place ot public worship. He was reported by one M. Reeves The sons of the latter were hauling wood with a team on that Sunday and | were present with the Meeks boy in | the woods, and scared the squirre!< | around the trees for the Meeks boy t» shoot. Then the father of the latte reported the Meeks boy and he wus | indicted. At his trial he was fined $i amounting in all to $2 Parker was the amount and costs, | The fine was paid and the boy wa» Psychoanalysis By ANDRE TRIDON | | | You and Your Mind | No. XIV.—THE TEST OF LOVE. Do you think you can tell love from hatred? It ts more dificult than you ‘think. The two feelings are con | stantly masquerading in each other guise. It is especially hatred whic) assumes the appear’ of love. | When we love some one there shou!) fonly be beautiful ideas in our min | concerning that person, We shouli ‘see him happy, healthy, prosperou: | When we hate sume one on |thoughts of him are unfortunate! bound to be colored by our feelings | We think of illness, death, accidents befalling him and punishing him o1 ridding us of him This is why when a young woman. apparently in love with two men and unable to decide which of them slic | would accept as her husband, asked me what to do about it, I put he: through the following love test: “What do you think of Alfred, asked her, ‘twhen he is late in meet ing you?’ “I am terribly provoked and generally, say snappy, things tv him." hat do you do when Willlam {< late?’ ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘I am on pins and needies and I imagine all sorts of awful things. I see him killed by . car, or in a taxicab accident, &e. “Marry Alfred then. If you did no! unconsciously wish to get rid of Wil iam you would not be constantly pic turing to yourself catastrophes like!: to remove him from this world." A young woman was tortured bh panicky fears whenever there was commotion on the street. She ‘knew that her child had been run over, Sh very reluctantly confessed that mot! erhood had put an end to an interes? ing professional career and did ran than once interfere with many plan)! repressed t: of hers, Her regrets, \ strongly, had slowly transformeti themselves into unconsctous hatre, for the innocent child whom she con: ),, sciously adored. After acquiring more insight Into her states of mind she gradually freed herself from those obsessive fears which translated every street noise into @ terrible accident. Her dreams began to reveal the unconscious trans formation of her thoughts. Night after night she dreamt that her child, then five, was a grown-up man. This ‘was a much more pleasant fancy than the first. | MONEY TALKS. By HERBERT BENNINGTON. Copyright (New York Evening World), PrTIENS coe Tublishing Conte” LUNCH, Saturday (poy day); Steak, pota- toes, coffee, pie, ice cream (for two) . sereeeeee BETS y | Monday: Lamb, peas, pie and cof- Veal, coffee COMBI «Sacer casein Wednesday; Bacon and eggs, fee, apple sauce......++.s.0008 | Thursday: Soup, pie and coffee... .50 Friday: Sandwich, coffee, ple.... Total ve S850 Po you properly divide the money you allow yourself for a week's lunches or do von “eat big” when you have jthe money and less aw the week passes? Would you not be better off by aver- | aging on the Tuesday or Wednesday, r el]